Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110058810 | OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT (ONU) AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE ONU - Provided is an Optical Network Unit (ONU) and a method of operating the ONU. The ONU may include: a measurement unit to measure a downstream optical signal strength of downstream data received from an Optical Line Termination (OLT) via an optical splitter; a determination unit to determine an upstream optical signal strength based on the measured downstream optical signal strength; and a communication unit to transmit, to the OLT via the optical splitter, upstream data generated based on the determined upstream optical signal strength. | 03-10-2011 |
20110099545 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY UPDATING SOFTWARE INSTALLED IN TERMINALS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method of controlling a server to simultaneously update software installed in a plurality of terminals in a communication system, the method including: receiving an update message from each of the terminals; determining a size of a transmission window based on the update message; processing an image of software to be transmitted to the plurality of terminals, based on the size of the transmission window; and transmitting the image of software to the plurality of terminals. | 04-28-2011 |
20110103382 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERING MULTICAST PORT IDENTIFIER IN GIGABIT-CAPABLE PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (GPON) SYSTEM - Provided is an apparatus for filtering a multicast port identifier, the apparatus including: a processor to receive an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) message from a switching unit, to verify a traffic reception request received from a subscriber terminal based on the IGMP message, and to store a value in a filtering register based on the traffic reception request; and an Optical Network Unit (ONU) Media Access Control (MAC) manager to filter a packet to be forwarded to the subscriber terminal, using a port identifier for traffic forwarding and reception with the subscriber terminal, and using the value of the filtering register indicating an existence of traffic to be forwarded to the subscriber terminal. | 05-05-2011 |
20110129223 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH - A dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus of a passive optical network detects guarantee agreement information of each transmission container (T-CONT) queue of at least one optical network unit (ONU) that is connected to the dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus in order to dynamically allocate a bandwidth is provided. The dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus sets a queue threshold according to a buffer size of each T-CONT queue of at least one ONU, and calculates a service level agreement (SLA) parameter of at least one ONU using guarantee agreement information and a queue threshold. The dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus allocates a bandwidth for every frame of each ONU using each SLA parameter of at least one ONU. | 06-02-2011 |
20120045214 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BURST MODE CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY - Provided is an optical line terminator (OLT) to recover packet data and a clock from an optical signal including a silent interval. The OLT may receive packet data and a clock from at least one optical network unit (ONU). Even in a silent interval in which the at least one ONU does not transmit packet data, the OLT may successfully recover the clock. | 02-23-2012 |
20120163799 | Method for Transmitting OAM Message and Processing Error in PON System - A method of transmitting an Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) message and of processing an error in a Passive Optical Network (PON) system is provided. Using an OAM packet format that may be used in common in the PON system, a process of transmitting or receiving an OAM message may be simplified, an efficiency of the process may be increased, and an Optical Network Unit (ONU) may be managed at a high speed. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163805 | OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT AND METHOD OF SAVING POWER THEREOF - Provided is an optical network unit saving power. The optical network unit may include a processor checking whether at least one downward physical block, the upward physical block and a data switching block operate in an idle mode, sequentially transiting at least one downward physical block, an upward physical block and a data switching block to a sleep mode according to the checking result and sequentially transiting an optical transmission-reception block and the medium access control block to a sleep mode by judging whether or not a medium access control block transits to a sleep mode. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163806 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL DEVICE AND OPTICAL NETWORK DEVICE - Disclosed is an optical line terminal device which includes a media access control (MAC) block configured to convert Ethernet packets and port identifiers into a downstream frame or an upstream frame into the Ethernet packets and the port identifiers; and a central processing unit (CPU) configured to control the MAC block, wherein the MAC block includes a traffic monitoring part which is configured to receive the port identifiers and to provide identifier information of an optical network device according to the port identifiers; and wherein the CPU is configured to generate a control frame for controlling a power supplied to the optical network device, according to identifier information of the optical network device. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163830 | OPTICAL REPEATER AND OPTICAL SIGNAL AMPLIFYING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an optical amplifier which includes an upward optical amplifier configured to amplify an input upward optical signal of an input optical signal; and a control circuit configured to control an operation of the upward optical amplifier according to whether an upward stream is detected from the input upward optical signal. | 06-28-2012 |
20130156426 | LOW POWER OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINAL AND METHOD OF OPERATING LOW POWER OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINAL - Disclosed is a low power optical network terminal (ONT) and a method of operating the low power ONT. The low power ONT may include a network media access control (MAC) processing unit to transmit and receive traffic to and from an optical line terminal (OLT), a switching unit to receive the traffic transmitted from the network MAC processing unit and transmit the traffic to a subscriber terminal and to receive the traffic from the subscriber terminal and transmit the traffic to the OLT, and a control unit to control traffic transmission from the network MAC processing unit when a power mode is a low power mode. | 06-20-2013 |
20130188947 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING OPTICAL LINE - An apparatus and method for monitoring an optical line is provided. The optical line monitoring apparatus may include a comparison unit to extract first identification information about an optical network terminal (ONT) from reflected data that is reflected and received from the optical line, and to compare the extracted first identification information to predetermined second identification information about the ONT, and a processor to analyze a state of the optical line using the reflected data when the first identification information is identical to the second identification information. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188953 | OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM - An optical network system for controlling a passive optical network (PON) in which at least one symmetric optical subscriber terminal and at least one asymmetric optical subscriber terminal coexist is provided. | 07-25-2013 |
20140059531 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING TERMINAL SOFTWARE - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for updating a terminal software version. The method includes providing software update start information including window size information and software image storage space information to a plurality of terminals, receiving first response information in accordance with provision of the software update start information from the plurality of terminals, and providing software update information in accordance with the window size information to the plurality of terminals in units of sections. | 02-27-2014 |
20140133843 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL AND OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT FOR SUPPORTING SLEEP MODE THEREOF - An optical line terminal is provided which includes an upward band allocating unit configured to send an upward bandwidth allocation map to an optical network unit and to determine a sleep mode of the optical network unit according to whether a response message corresponding to the upward bandwidth allocation map is received; and an alarm unit configured to determine an upward bandwidth allocation map transfer operation as a normal operation according to an operation of the sleep mode. | 05-15-2014 |
20140178072 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF REGISTERING OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINAL THEREOF - The inventive concept relates to an optical line terminal registering optical network terminals having overlapping serial numbers. The optical line terminal may include a memory storing serial number information of optical network terminals of which a registration is completed in a storage region; and a control part that if a serial number by a serial number request is received from optical network terminals, the received serial number is compared with the serial number information of the memory and if they overlap each other, a previously set preliminary identifier is allocated to the optical network terminal having an overlapping serial number. | 06-26-2014 |
20140270768 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL OF PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UPSTREAM BAND USING THE SAME - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method capable of adjusting an upstream band for a corresponding ONU by detecting a quantity of bands occupied by a packet, not an effective user packet, among upstream transmission bands for each target object of allocation of each band in the OLT to examine whether a queue report is normal, and detecting an ONU, which transmits an abnormal queue report, according to the examination. An OLT of a PON according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a frame monitoring unit configured to monitor upstream frame data received for each T-CONT; an error detection unit configured to determine whether a queue report error is generated for each T-CONT according to a result of the monitoring; and a band allocation controller configured to allocate an upstream band for an ONU, in which the queue report error is generated, separately from a normal ONU. | 09-18-2014 |
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20100135665 | BURST MODE OPTICAL REPEATER - A burst mode optical repeater is provided. The burst mode optical repeater receives optical signals, which are transmitted from a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) in a passive optical network (PON) to a central office using a time division multiplexing access (TDMA) method, and relays the received optical signals using an optical-electrical-optical (OEO) method. Since the burst mode optical repeater can be installed anywhere between an optical line terminal (OLT) and the ONUs, the number of subscribers and transmission range that can be supported by a corresponding network can be increased. | 06-03-2010 |
20100221006 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION ON TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS-BASED PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (TDMA-PON) - Provided are an apparatus and method for efficiently and dynamically allocating a bandwidth on a Time Division Multiple Access-based Passive Optical Network (TDMA PON). The dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus for uplink data transmission of a plurality of Optical Network Units (ONUs) including a plurality of class queues corresponding to Transmission Container (T-CONT) types, the plurality of ONUs connected to an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) on a Passive Optical Network (PON), includes: a class queue information storage unit storing information regarding a bandwidth allocation period and an allocatable bandwidth amount for each T-CONT type; an allocation check table unit checking the bandwidth allocation period for the T-CONT type received from the class queue information storage unit, and determining an allocatable bandwidth amount for the T-CONT type; and a bandwidth allocation unit allocating an uplink bandwidth to the T-CONT type with reference to the bandwidth allocation period and the allocatable bandwidth amount for the T-CONT type, and re-allocating to each ONU an uplink bandwidth remaining after allocating a total uplink bandwidths to all T-CONT types. | 09-02-2010 |
20110020002 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL, METHOD FOR OPERATING OPTICAL RECEPTION INTERFACE, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CONTINUOUS MODE SIGNAL OF OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL - An Optical Line Terminal (OLT) configuring a Passive Optical Network (PON) is provided. The OLT includes an optical transmitter that transmits an optical signal to Optical Network Units (ONUs) in a downstream direction, an optical receiver that includes general Continuous Mode (CM) signal processing elements to recover clocks and data from optical signals transmitted by ONUs in an upstream direction, and a controller that controls the ONUs such that the optical receiver continuously receives an optical signal. An OLT interface for receiving an optical signal can be implemented using the general CM signal processing elements. | 01-27-2011 |
20120045210 | OPTICAL SUBSCRIBER NETWORK - An optical subscriber network for power reduction is provided. The optical subscriber network may include an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) and an Optical Network Terminal (ONT). The OLT may manage a plurality of ONTs by classifying the plurality of ONTs into a sleep group, and may multicast a sleep allowance message only to ONTs included in a predetermined sleep group. | 02-23-2012 |
20120163808 | DETECTING ROGUE ONU, OLT AND PON SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of detecting a rogue optical network unit (ONU) is provided. An optical line terminal (OLT) detects an abnormal upstream transmission to determine a plurality of rogue ONU candidates, and transmits a sleep allow message instructing a transition to a sleep mode to each of the plurality of rogue ONU candidates. The OLT detects the rogue ONU among the plurality of rogue ONU candidates based on upstream transmissions from the plurality of rogue ONU candidates in the sleep mode. Since the detection of the rogue ONU is performed in the sleep mode, the remaining ONUs can transition from the sleep mode to the normal mode after the detection of the rogue ONU is completed, thereby making it possible to rapidly resume upstream communication. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163818 | PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING OPTICAL SIGNAL - Disclosed herein are a remote node and a telephone station terminal in a passive optical network (PON). The remote node includes an optical circulator that transmits downlink signals input from a downlink optical backbone network to a wavelength distributor and transmits uplink signals input from the wavelength distributor to an uplink optical backbone network different from a downlink optical backbone network; and a wavelength distributor that distributes the downlink signal input from the optical circulator into a plurality of wavelengths to be connected to an optical distribution network and connects the uplink signals input from the optical distribution network to the optical circulator. | 06-28-2012 |
20120315046 | PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (PON)-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HANDOVER AMONG OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINALS (ONTS) - A Passive Optical Network (PON)-based system and method for providing handover between Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) are provided. The PON-based system may include an Optical Line Terminal (OLT), and an ONT to relay communication between the OLT and a mobile terminal. When the mobile terminal is connected to the ONT, the ONT may transmit a WiFi location update alarm message to the OLT, and the OLT may update a Look-Up Table (LUT) in response to the WiFi location update alarm message. | 12-13-2012 |
20130071111 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION TO SUPPORT LOW-POWER MODE IN PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (PON) - An apparatus and method for managing a dynamic bandwidth allocation to support a low-power mode, in a passive optical network (PON) are provided. The apparatus may include a power saving mode managing unit to manage a power saving mode of at least one optical network unit (ONU), a bandwidth allocation parameter storage unit to store a bandwidth allocation parameter used for a power saving mode, and to maintain the stored bandwidth allocation parameter, and a dynamic bandwidth allocating unit to provide bandwidth allocation information to the at least one ONU, when the stored bandwidth allocation parameter is received. | 03-21-2013 |
20140270779 | WAVELENGTH SELECTION AND CONFIGURATION METHOD FOR MULTI-WAVELENGTH OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is an OLT including a wavelength splitter that splits all upstream optical signals with different wavelengths received from at least one ONU according to wavelength, at least one receiver that receive the optical signals split by the wavelength splitter according to wavelength, a wavelength selector that allocates an upstream transmission wavelength of the at least one ONU, and a transmitter that transmits wavelength allocation information allocated by the wavelength selector to the at least one ONU. | 09-18-2014 |